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MrEnt – software for making phylogenetic trees

MrEnt is a program for drawing high-quality, printable phylogenetic trees. It is a user-friendly software that recognizes Nexus tree files (like those generated by e.g. PAUP and MrBayes) and displays them in the most commonly used tree formats. Our goal was to produce a software to create with no troubles all tree drawings for scientific publications directly from the analysis outputs, without using any additional graphic editor.

I don’t which dog woke me up first; the one licking my face or the one licking my feet. July and August have kept me unusually busy and I’ve had no time for blogging and a lot less for the dogs, but even under trying times I make time for the dogs. Typically we wake…

I’m worried about the future of the Malinois*. On June 26 MGM will release the movie Max and I hope it tanks. I really do. Movies can influence dog choice and the upcoming release of this movie threatens to make the Malinois the trendy dog to have; this effect can be felt 10 years…

I’m nearly finished with Pat Shipman’s book ‘The Invaders‘ and thought about writing something on it; during the preliminary research I came across Kevin Behan’s take on this book. His post is the usual pseudo-science babble and mystical energy nonsense but one part caught my attention for its brazen dismissal of well documented history. Behan…

In 2013 there was a bit of excitement when a group out of Missouri U reported finding Y-chromosomal DNA in the blood dogs that had given birth to male pups. The first time fetal microchimerism (FMc) has been detected in dogs. During pregnancy there is a small exchange of cells between mother and…

Cesar, you once wrote: “When I learned how to be calm-submissive to my wife, it improved my marriage 100 percent!” But you are now divorced. Did your recipe for an “improved” marriage lead to its eventual breakdown? Were you resentful about being submissive? Was your wife looking for a partner and not a prisoner to…